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Buddy

Twelve-year-old Li'l T and his family face great losses caused by Hurricane Katrina, including leaving Buddy, their very special, three-legged dog, behind when they must evacuate.
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The cameo necklace

a C?cile mystery
Eleven-year-old C?cile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat. Includes facts about the 1850s.
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Marie-Grace makes a difference

Marie-Grace Gardner, worried about yellow fever in New Orleans, finds out someone she care about is ill and tries to do what she can to help, and fears the epidemic will cause her to lose her home and family.

Marie-Grace and the orphans

Marie-Grace Gardner, having found a baby on the doorstep, asks her friend C?cile Rey to help her protect the child from a slave catcher and worries about rumors about a deadly fever in New Orleans.

Meet Marie-Grace

Marie-Grace Gardner, having arrived in New Orleans and met the talented opera singer Mademoiselle Oc?ana, wishes to take voice lessons and become friends with C?cile Rey, a student of Mademoiselle, and hopes an unexpected adventure will help her feel at home in the city.

The Red House

The Legion is back and heading for the mysterious, abandoned Red House, but Derek must get there first in order to stop them from waging war.

Meet C?cile

C?cile Rey looks forward to having a one-of-a-kind costume at Mardi Gras and her brother's return from France, while forming a friendship and having a daring adventure with Marie-Grace Gardner.

Blood dazzler

poems
2008
A collection of poems by Patricia Smith that explore the devastating impact Hurricane Katrina had on the city of New Orleans, its people, and the country as a whole.
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The yellow house

2019
"Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] 'The Yellow House' tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina"--Provided by publisher.
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Jazz bands

Readers learn about jazz bands and the participants in them.
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